Links and tweets, 2023-02-08
by Jason Crawford · February 8, 2023 · 1 min read
The Progress Forum
- A catalog of big visions for biology
- London progress meetup, Feb 25
- A Cure for My Cancer, by Virginia Postrel
- Eli Dourado AMA has concluded
Announcements
- Metascience event at AEI, Feb 9 (via @AlecStapp)
- Visa Limbo, a site from IFP tracking visa processing delays (via @JeremyLNeufeld)
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus for $20/month (via @miramurati)
Links
- Let’s add AP Progress to the high school curriculum (by @JimPethokoukis)
- Marc Andreessen on Dwarkesh’s podcast. Also Dwarkesh now has paid subscriptions. And what should he ask Elad Gil?
- A vision for cargo airships (by @elidourado)
- This comment convinced me I was wrong: we are not “pre-theory” regarding cancer
- NASA, DARPA to test nuclear engine for Mars missions (via @elidourado)
Queries
- Is there a directory of all the open-ended grant programs?
- Who should Milan Cvitkovic meet in SF? (@MWCvitkovic)
- Who is hiring for robotics roles/internships? (@momahmood_)
- What is the best way to bootstrap an advanced understanding of biology? (@danielgolliher)
Quotes
- The philosophers who told us not to celebrate progress
- History is biased to war and politics; progress is relatively neglected
- “Scientific management” was the precursor to 20th-century technocracy
- The need for ambition, from GH Hardy’s “A Mathematician’s Apology” (@nabeelqu)
- Bacon on lumpers vs. splitters
Tweets
- LLMs create a vector space for concepts
- We will get many specialized AIs, not a massive centralized Great Brain
- People’s work is defined more by their methods than their goals
Retweets
- How much more quickly things were done in the 1960s (@Gilesyb)
- ChatGPT as a universal translator (@YirenLu)
- 69 of 109 jurisdictions in SFBA now subject to the builder’s remedy (@Yimby_Law)
- “This might be my favorite 1-page philosophy paper” (@davidalanbuiles)
- A hypothesis about things capitalism gets blamed for (@mbateman)
Charts
